Audit

Archive
8 December 2005

In the vault

E-Health Insider talks to Gwyn Thomas, director of Welsh healthcare IT programme Informing Healthcare, about how his emphasis is on
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24 November 2005

Wristband risk to patient safety highlighted

A drive to raise awareness of the importance of patients wearing hospital wristbands should make barcode and RFID technology more
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14 November 2005

Granger says NPfIT in danger of being derailed

The director in charge of the £6.2 billion NHS National Programme for IT has warned that the project is in
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3 November 2005

IT has critical role in patient safety, says watchdog

 Public service watchdog, the National Audit Office, has underlined the key role IT should play in improving patient safety not
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1 November 2005

Choose and Book ‘will be a year late’

The flagship Choose and Book electronic booking application will be at least a year late by the time it is
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12 October 2005

Investment in clinical coding now critical

NHS trusts must urgently invest in the financial and performance management and supporting information systems, the Audit Commission says in
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28 September 2005

Code red

Daloni Carlisle reports on how the often neglected discipline of clinical coding is becoming vital to the financial health of
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23 September 2005

NHS chief executive calls for investment in IT

NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp has called on trusts to make greater use of shared back office functions such as
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21 September 2005

A quarter of all diabetics undiagnosed

A quarter of all people who have diabetes remain undiagnosed, leaving them at serious risk of developing serious complications. The
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13 September 2005

New software for logging drug enquiries ready

New software that helps pharmacists in local medicine information centres to record and audit clinician enquiries about medication has been released
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